It’s May! There’s blossom on the trees; there are ducklings on the canal; all over town, there are wee fluffy birds getting the measure of how to use a feeder. Join us for our penultimate event of the 2022/23 season, at which we’ll be ushering in summer with poetry from Tess Taylor, Regi Claire and open mic readers, plus music from our house band, Dekoy. Further details below ❤️
The When & the Where:
Thursday 25th May 2023
7:45pm – 9:15pm (doors open 7:30pm)
The Waverley Bar, 3-5 St Mary’s St, Edinburgh EH1 1TA
Admission: Our standard entrance charges are £7.50 (waged) and £5 (concession). This includes one raffle ticket, which will also be your receipt of entry. For those keen to increase their chances of a raffle win, we’ve also introduced a new Golden Ticket: at £10, this covers entry plus five raffle tickets. Entry is payable by either card or cash, but it’s worth bringing the latter in case you’d like to buy a book from one of our readers.
The Poets:
TESS TAYLOR
Tess Taylor’s body of work deals with place, ecology, memory and cultural reckoning. She’s published five celebrated poetry collections: The Misremembered World, The Forage House, Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange, Work & Days, and Rift Zone. She has also served as the on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered for over a decade. Her work as a cultural critic appears in in Harpers Magazine, The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Times Literary Supplement, CNN, and The New York Times. She is currently at work on two plays, one of which is a stage adaptation of her book of poems about American photographer Dorothea Lange. This fall, she’ll publish her first full length poetry anthology: Leaning Toward Light: Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Tend Them, a collection of contemporary gardening poems, for an era of climate crisis. She lives just outside Berkeley California.
REGI CLAIRE
Regi Claire was born and brought up in Switzerland. She won the Mslexia/PBS Women’s Poetry Competition 2019 and was a finalist for the Forward Prizes 2020 (Best Single Poem) and the Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition 2021. Her poems have appeared in Acumen, Ambit, Antigonish Review, Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021, Best Scottish Poems 2021, Forward Book of Poetry, Mslexia, New European, Poetry Birmingham, Rialto, Southword, Under the Radar, Thi Wurd and others. Regi’s fiction has twice been shortlisted for Scotland’s National Book Awards and won a UBS Cultural Foundation Award. She teaches a course at Edinburgh University and lives in the Southside with her husband and their golden retriever.
Signing up for the Open Mic:
We have four open mic spots each month. These are booked in advance. To request an open mic spot in the future, please email us at shorepoetsedinburgh @ gmail.com (remove the spaces)
The Raffle:
Entry includes a raffle ticket; additional tickets are also available to buy when you arrive, should you wish to increase your chances of winning this month’s scrummy lemon cake. Or you can boost the odds of being the envy of the room and snaffling that piece of home-baked glory by purchasing one of our new Golden Tickets (further details above, under ‘The When & the Where’). The raffle also frequently boasts other no less wonderful but definitely less edible prizes, in the form of pamphlets or books.
See you there!
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